Business Lines Senior Counsel
About The Position
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. GEICO is looking for an experienced legal professional with a background in insurance products to serve as an embedded Product Senior Legal Advisor. In this role you will support all business lines as they develop new products or ways of doing business and refine their work. The ideal candidate will build a strong relationship with the business units to understand their goals and plans. They will quickly learn the business objectives, the plan for achieving them, and then advise on legal requirements in language appropriate for non-lawyers. You will also advise on future risks and opportunities taking into consideration insurance compliance, consumer-protection laws, contractual obligations, privacy, and the requirements of the unfair claims practices acts.
Requirements
- Strongly prefers candidates with 5 to 7 years of experience at a law firm or in-house serving as a legal advisor or coverage counselor for products within property/casualty insurance or an insurance litigation background including bad faith or extra contractual exposure
- Must have a law degree and an active law license to practice in the United States of America
- Strong listening and communication skills
- Strong research and writing skills, and an eagerness to be involved in a dynamic company
- Ability to quickly digest and understand business plans, processes, and procedures
- Ability to provide legal advice with incomplete information
- Refined judgement about legal and legal-adjacent risks as well as mitigation opportunities
- Must be solution oriented with strong analytical and decision-making skills
- Must have demonstrated experience solving business problems and advancing business metrics
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, both legal and non-legal.
Responsibilities
- Under general supervision, understand all key business objectives and means of accomplishing them for assigned business unit(s)
- Provide legal advice related to the business unit(s) and anticipate future legal needs
- Draft and review policy documents anticipating litigation exposure
- Coordinate support for assigned business units from other parts of the legal department
- Use wide range of legal knowledge to issue spot implications of business choice that could interact with multiple legal subject areas such as, insurance compliance, consumer-protection laws, contractual obligations, privacy, and requirements of state unfair claims practices acts.
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
